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An Introductory Guide to SAS

An introductory online tutorial for beginners to use SAS.

Roadmap of the Guide

This tutorial provides various commonly used sample SAS codes. 

Contents including:

Defining SAS Libraries

Data Steps

  • Creating a dataset
  • Creating a new dataset based on existing dataset
  • Modifying a dataset

                1. Renaming variables

                2. Keeping variables

                3. Dropping variables

Importing Data (Excel, SPSS, CSV files, and printing data)

Computing New Variables 

  • Creating a new variable by copying an existing variable
  • Creating a new variable with a constant value
  • Creating new variables by arithmetic calculations
  • Using if-then statement

Sorting Data (ascending and descending)

Subsetting and Merging

  • Subsetting by variables, dropping missing value, multiple conditions, 
  • Merging Data
  • Stacking Data

Summarizing Data

  • Printing variables
  • Summarizing continuous variables
  • Summarizing categorical variables

Analyzing Data

  • Pearson Correlation
  • Independent t-test
  • Chi-Square Test
  • One Way ANOVA
  • Linear Regression

 

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